European companies will remain world leaders in developing green technologies even in times of economic recession, but Europe must work on attracting more venture capital to bring these products to the market, business leaders told a European Business Summit session last week.

NanoInk's NanoStem Cell Division announced today it has entered into joint research and licensing agreements with the UK Centre for Tissue Engineering (UKCTE) at the University of Liverpool in Liverpool, England, and the Centre of Molecular NanoMetrology at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, for the development of modified surfaces for manipulation of stem cell differentiation.

For the first time in its history, Leica Microsystems? annual sales volume for 2008 exceeded the billion US dollar mark, reports the international high-tech microscope and scientific instrument manufacturer and distributor, headquartered in Wetzlar.

Two large construction projects at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory - the U.S. ATLAS Detector Project and the Center for Functional Nanomaterials - have been named winners of the DOE Secretary's Award for Achievement.

Company announces meetings regarding new projects.

Applied Materials, Inc. and DISCO Corporation today announced a joint effort to develop wafer thinning processes for fabricating through-silicon vias in 3-dimensional semiconductors.

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing and collaborators in the USA have designed a way to enhance TiO2 catalytic efficiency by doping the crystal with pairs of atoms.

The key to ultracapacitor design is a high surface area electrode material because this material determines energy capacity. GoNano Technologies, Inc will use their patent-pending Nanospring mats as a low cost, high surface area scaffolding for constructing ultracapacitor electrodes.

Building on the idea of using DNA to link up nanoparticles scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have designed a molecular assembly line for predictable, high-precision nano-construction.

Chemists at the University of Illinois have created a simple and inexpensive molecular technique that replaces an expensive atomic force microscope for studying what happens to small molecules when they are stretched or compressed.